As we end 2023 and step forward into 2024, we can’t help but look behind and remember, yet then turn to look ahead. This is true both in day to day life and in the ministry.

This past year of 2023 has been a year of waiting…waiting for God’s leading in the next steps of ministry. For the past few years we have been involved in ministries at our home church in Arizona (Tri-City Baptist Church) as well as Mark working with the military chaplains. We knew God was calling us as a family into full-time ministry and thought we knew where. But God sometimes leads us one step at a time, only showing us the next step in His perfect timing. And He did the same with us.

Over this past summer, our Lord began burdening our hearts for missions. As an MK (missionary kid), Katie’s heart was ready and willing to go. Several years before she had surrendered her life to missions during her church’s missions conference, if that was God’s will. Mark began to feel the Holy Spirit working in him this year, focusing his thoughts more on missions and filling him with the burden of the missionary calling. After much prayer and then seeking guidance from godly mentors, God revealed the next step He would have us take…going to the mission field.

Since that time we have started preparing for deputation.

As we end 2023 and step forward into 2024, we can’t help but look behind and remember, yet then turn to look ahead. This is true both in day to day life and in the ministry.

This past year of 2023 has been a year of waiting…waiting for God’s leading in the next steps of ministry. For the past few years we have been involved in ministries at our home church in Arizona (Tri-City Baptist Church) as well as Mark working with the military chaplains. We knew God was calling us as a family into full-time ministry and thought we knew where. But God sometimes leads us one step at a time, only showing us the next step in His perfect timing. And He did the same with us.

Over this past summer, our Lord began burdening our hearts for missions. As an MK (missionary kid), Katie’s heart was ready and willing to go. Several years before she had surrendered her life to missions during her church’s missions conference, if that was God’s will. Mark began to feel the Holy Spirit working in him this year, focusing his thoughts more on missions and filling him with the burden of the missionary calling. After much prayer and then seeking guidance from godly mentors, God revealed the next step He would have us take…going to the mission field.

Since that time we have started preparing for deputation.